Gun Control
Few issues excite Americans more than the issue of rising crime and violence. This problem can easily be linked to the availability of guns. The debate around gun control is becoming a national issue with the many mass shootings and suicides. People need to take a stance and decide which way our country is going to go. Some would say to stand against these acts of violence. This would lead to stricter laws against owning weapons and more extensive background checks to obtain firearms. However, gun control will not stop shootings or suicides. Next, it will create hardships to those who use guns for defense. Lastly, it is protected in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Adding restrictions for firearms is unnecessary to protect American citizens. . Although some people may say that if there were more restrictions on obtaining guns, there would be fewer incidents and crimes. However, guns can be obtained by many different ways, other than purchasing them at stores. For instance, when people think of guns, all that is thought about is the school shootings that have occurred recently. Those events are unfortunate, but in reality those children who publicly fired a weapon did not purchase the gun, they stole it. Most of these students were able to steal these weapons from another member in their household. In most cases, parents are the main source to obtain weapons. It is the responsibility for the parents to keep their firearms safe and away from the rest of the family, not the government. Also, many people are able to purchase firearms and any other type of weapon through the black market. This exemplifies that it would be impossible for a repeal to be successful. Furthermore, even if guns were nonexistent, there have been many incidents where people were able to manufacture firearms from their homes. This ability to manufacture weapons was seen before during the Soviet Unions war with Afghanistan. The "Afghanistan tribesmen used wood and metal working equipment much like the equipment you can order in a sears magazine, produced hand crafted rifles that fired the Russian AK-47 assault rifle cartridge," said Ross Dailey, a weapons expert Thus, gun control will not cease criminal acts and public dangers. Although some people say that gun control federal policies keep firearms out of the hands of high-risk persons, it often creates barriers for law-abiding citizens who use these weapons for defense purposes. Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year or about 6,850 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times